CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman charged in the death of a mother and the child cut from her womb has given birth.
The Cook County Sheriff’s Department revealed Tuesday that 25-year-old Desiree Figueroa was taken from Cook County Jail, where she has been held since May, to give birth on Nov. 1 at Stroger Hospital.
She is now back in jail.
Authorities provided no further information. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has refused to comment.
Figueroa and her mother, 46-year-old Clarisa Figueroa, are accused of luring 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez to Clarisa Figueroa's home, then . Clarisa Figueroa then went to a hospital with the brain-damaged newborn, claiming the baby boy as her own. The weeks later.